I disagree the best programmers recognise markets that no one else saw before or were lucky enough to stumble into them. Markets are created by unfullfilled need.
if your site isn't to depemded on database integation and other dynamic stuff TheWayBackMachine can be a life saver; it'll miss some of the graphics sometimes.
No, like keep an eye out incase there's something we missed, or there's an attack using an exploit that hasn't got a fix yet.
Don't worry about it, anyone who's going to do this has already hacked your site, and probably installed vulnerable files, so they can go back and activate the defacement in less than 3 seconds and then move on. They can upload a file called index.bak to your doc root, then go back and use ftp to change the name to index.html and a whole php powered site is off the air and replaced by something of their chosing.
If you were real smart, you'd have logged every file you've put up there to include the file size, and the timestamp your server put on it, so you'd have a much better idea if the file up there was legit, or a file that some hacker loaded to save for contest time.
If you have any indication that your sites been cracked, you can trust no file there, upload each and everyone from your back-up.
My opinion is the majority of cracker's that'll do a contest thing aren't that interested in some elegent attack, but are much more likely to look for weak passwords, or well known vulnerabilities in your software.
why? suppose I've done government fund comp sci research and have come up with a completely new gee-whiz bang widget function. Next I publish, complete with psuedo-code and even some general C implimentation, my article, the code contained ect is published as public-domain by Scientific American, so any body can copy the article ( the text and included figures but not necessarily Sci Am's formating and editing of the text and figures), and the contained code for any used. I still can publish a program based on the above as a specific implimentation and have copyright protection for my work ( the work as a third party extended the public domain base) as can any other third party, based on theirs; and release the work under any license desired. Of course IANAL.
no, I doubt it, I understand that any of the SCO developers worth keeping went with Tarantella to have an opertunity to work on something that was commercialy viable and interesting. SCO (pre-caldera) thought unix without hardware a lame horse that needed a bullet to the head. If the new SCO had been smart they'd just sat back and collected license royalties, i.e. put the lame horse out to pasture and stud service, maybe change themselves into a software distributing/licensing company sort of like a RIAA for software, but they blew it.
SCO's main thrust here is that every modern OS since SysV violates SCO's "intellectual property."
The crux of the matter seems to revolve around three main issues. Firstly is the widely reported clause in the AT&T System V license, that all derivative works of System V belong to the license grantor, SCO actualy exist in an enforcable form, or is it an urban legend? If the clause is in existance and is enforcable, then IBM will need to prove that the aleged copied code in both System V and Linux, came from a pre-existing source and was copied somewhat verbatim into both, better than SCO can prove that it was copied from System V (AIX) into Linux.
The above to me seems prerequisite to the second issue, that the BSD somehow violated and voided their settlement with AT&T. This would place BSD back under the System V family and "owned by SCO" under the system V license.
The third issue take a real stretch; take clean code that contains no System V "IP" in it and add some System V code to it and it (the whole code) becomes a system V derivative, belonging to SCO and remove the System V code, and replace it with non-System V code, and its still a System V derivative because the remainder became a System V derivative!
Now I absolutly know that Windows95 displayed a BSD license mandated copyright notice, because I've personaly seen it, which strongly indicates that Windows95 had BSD code (I've seen rumors that at least the TCP/IP stack came from BSD) If they "prove" the above issues, then it follows that Microsft's windows 9X series would also belong to SCO and possibly the windows NT family of OSes giving SCO control of the x86 desktop!
Their lies and threats (the threatened SuSE, RedHat, Linus Torvalds, all Linux users, and others - without ever really suing anybody) they threaten everybody, here's the thought train. If they can convince a judge or jury to rule that the code that was inserted into Linux was the same code as was previously inserted into System V they win,( it's a system V derivative, and therefore owned by SCO). If IBM can convince the judge or jury that the code that was inserted into Linux came from the non-specific implementation as did the code inserted into system V IBM will win (it's a paralell developement, not a derivative). Anything that goes into system V belongs to SCO; anthing that is derived from systemV belongs to SCO.
More ominous is that SCO is making noises that BSD violated it's settlement with At&t and therefore BSD has the same problem as Linux, SCO is going to claim BSD is a system V derivative. Why would SCO bother with BSD, because Windows used BSD code, making Windows a system V derivative!
Following this through to its logical conclusion, unless you are running Solaris, you're going to be paying SCO a system V license fee.
That's right SCO considers IBM, low hanging fruit! the code in violation actualy has their copyright notices for all to see in Linux, the BSD thing will be slightly more difficult to prove but not much, then on to Apple, then Microsoft; or so the crystal ball says.
Today I decided to make one too, the biggest problem I can forsee is that everybody that thinks they know something about electricity, are going to treat us like we are the anti-christ!
One thing I haven't figured out is if water has enough thermal-conductivity to do without a heat-sink on the CPU. I'm not sure about fish, clean an aquarium is enough of a chore without trying to vacuume fish feces of the cpu and not knock a memory stick loose.
For example, commercial sites rely on their banner ads to generate revenue. translation: We're to lazy to figure out how to write a caching script intelegent enough to realize that if it's caching example.com, the links to doubleclick.com are ad banners and should be drawn off the URL listed instead of the translated cache URL.
my pleco is 5yrs. old and about 14 inches already, but he has spend a couple summers in the outdoor aquarium. My outdoot aquarium is about 2K gallons in that picture, and I in the process of expanding it so that it'll be in the neighborhood of 4-5K gallons, Plecos will grow to 2 ft,
Probably no coincidence at all, the NYT probably keeps very close tabs on traffic volumes and referers, so when they start getting hits from/. they can check the context pretty quick and if they chose, use the Self Serve Ad System and put up 175,000 impressions for $1,000, in almost the blink of an eye. Or even a bet on who's refers slows who's servers by 25% first; say maybe the purchase of a banner ad?
I think that most of the more astute/. readers quickly become pretty impervious to astroturf replies in the threads; and the rest can pretty well follow along by reading the comments of other readers.
When I read or see something, and they are obviously selling the sizzile, not the steak, my hockey-meter goes up pretty quick; the other thing is if the online reviews and comments are just plain wrong, it gives the companies entire line bad-karma (accountants would call this crediting the Goodwill account). Norton have some rather good products, but I've recieved so much spam over them, I just don't consider them when I'm buying. Ironicaly I know the spam came from a third-party, selling privated copies, they should have moved on the guy before he gave them the bad-karma.
Also Astroturfing pollutes the online opinion pool, which I would think a valuable marketing resource. Marketing departments belong attached to the VP that controls R & D, not the VP that controls Sales and advertising.
If memory serves me correctly, Alan Cox is/or was both the 2.4 series Kernel Maintainer, owner of big chunks of Linux Kernel and an employee of Red Hat so probably Red Hat own some good sized chunks of Linux code as well.
If SCO has been knowningly distributing non-GPLed code mixed with GPLed code in their Linux distro then they are infringing on the copyright of both COX, Red Hat and half of the OSS developers in the known universe. So Red Hat might want to sue somebody quick while there is something left!
SCO is in the same boat, win a against IBM and they've violated the GPL and get sued by a thousand developers for copyright infringement i.e. distributing Linux and become the only entity in the entire universe that can't distribute Linux.
Europe would be OK if this just involve those pesky software patents, but I don't think anyone is sure just what is intailed here. Europe recognises copyrights, and I'm not sure but probably trade secrets also.
Just remember if you want to run Linux on an IBM system 390, you get it from SuSE, a German company It must have taken a lot of close cooperation between SuSE and IBM to do this and I'm sure if IBM gets burned for a billion, then SuSE would be next on the hit list.
IBM can bankrupt SCO simply by creative use of the discovery process
I think the expenses involved with the discovery process would be more than SCO can bear even without being creative. Imagine having to provide to IBM 1. the unix system V sources 2. the complete change logs 3. the last known addresses of all of the system V programmers for interviews and depositions. 4. the expense involved in provide a representative to cross-x the depositions of a couple hundred programers now located all over the country.
and that's not to mentions hiring the expert wittnesses to testify, they might have to pay 3 or 4 experts at $300.00/hr just to get 1 who can give benefitial testimony. The witness list for this thing would kill a couple trees! My guess is that SCO is going to have to rent a warehouse just to store the documents that they send and recieve on this matter and hire a couple full-time librarians just to manage and cross reference it.
some one sent one to one of my website server and called it codeBlue, it was supposed to patch server vulnerable to codeRed. No idea if it did or not, we were on an Irix server.
A company I work for (in the U.S.A.) had submitted a statement of work to a client, who waited for a month before signing the work order.
My dad was a superviser in a maufactering plant, they made wire and cable for the automotive/agricultural equipment makers, periodicly he'd just grab a cup of coffe and stroll arround his department to take note of what was there and what wasn't. If he ran out of part for the GM job, he'd think "We haven't had an order for Ford in quite a while." and change the machines over and built up the Ford bank. Eventualy his boss would do the "OMG we've an emergency order on the Ford job" thing, so my dad would tell them" We can do, might need a bunch of overtime to do it" the whole time the majority of the order was finished in what would otherwise have been down-time.
Insightfull managment would have thought, this is going to be a disaster, let's get started before the deal is inked. It's far easier to get a head start early and then pace it out towards the end so you look busy than it is to bust ass to get caught up at the deadline.
Do yourself a favor, toss the Rynd novels in the "free books" box at your local used bookstore. It's been a while since I read any Ayn Rand, but it seems like working 192 hrours for free over a six week period and "Rational Selfishness" are mutualy exclusive. Maybe He'd be better served by both reading and understand "Atlas Shrugged".
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I disagree the best programmers recognise markets that no one else saw before or were lucky enough to stumble into them. Markets are created by unfullfilled need.
maybe on weekend furlough from juvenile detention?
if your site isn't to depemded on database integation and other dynamic stuff TheWayBackMachine can be a life saver; it'll miss some of the graphics sometimes.
No, like keep an eye out incase there's something we missed, or there's an attack using an exploit that hasn't got a fix yet.
Don't worry about it, anyone who's going to do this has already hacked your site, and probably installed vulnerable files, so they can go back and activate the defacement in less than 3 seconds and then move on. They can upload a file called index.bak to your doc root, then go back and use ftp to change the name to index.html and a whole php powered site is off the air and replaced by something of their chosing.
If you were real smart, you'd have logged every file you've put up there to include the file size, and the timestamp your server put on it, so you'd have a much better idea if the file up there was legit, or a file that some hacker loaded to save for contest time.
If you have any indication that your sites been cracked, you can trust no file there, upload each and everyone from your back-up.
My opinion is the majority of cracker's that'll do a contest thing aren't that interested in some elegent attack, but are much more likely to look for weak passwords, or well known vulnerabilities in your software.
Are the Boron Nitride nanotubes made of carbon too?
why? suppose I've done government fund comp sci research and have come up with a completely new gee-whiz bang widget function. Next I publish, complete with psuedo-code and even some general C implimentation, my article, the code contained ect is published as public-domain by Scientific American, so any body can copy the article ( the text and included figures but not necessarily Sci Am's formating and editing of the text and figures), and the contained code for any used. I still can publish a program based on the above as a specific implimentation and have copyright protection for my work ( the work as a third party extended the public domain base) as can any other third party, based on theirs; and release the work under any license desired. Of course IANAL.
no, I doubt it, I understand that any of the SCO developers worth keeping went with Tarantella to have an opertunity to work on something that was commercialy viable and interesting. SCO (pre-caldera) thought unix without hardware a lame horse that needed a bullet to the head. If the new SCO had been smart they'd just sat back and collected license royalties, i.e. put the lame horse out to pasture and stud service, maybe change themselves into a software distributing/licensing company sort of like a RIAA for software, but they blew it.
SCO's main thrust here is that every modern OS since SysV violates SCO's "intellectual property."
The crux of the matter seems to revolve around three main issues.
Firstly is the widely reported clause in the AT&T System V license, that all derivative works of System V belong to the license grantor, SCO actualy exist in an enforcable form, or is it an urban legend? If the clause is in existance and is enforcable, then IBM will need to prove that the aleged copied code in both System V and Linux, came from a pre-existing source and was copied somewhat verbatim into both, better than SCO can prove that it was copied from System V (AIX) into Linux.
The above to me seems prerequisite to the second issue, that the BSD somehow violated and voided their settlement with AT&T. This would place BSD back under the System V family and "owned by SCO" under the system V license.
The third issue take a real stretch; take clean code that contains no System V "IP" in it and add some System V code to it and it (the whole code) becomes a system V derivative, belonging to SCO and remove the System V code, and replace it with non-System V code, and its still a System V derivative because the remainder became a System V derivative!
Now I absolutly know that Windows95 displayed a BSD license mandated copyright notice, because I've personaly seen it, which strongly indicates that Windows95 had BSD code (I've seen rumors that at least the TCP/IP stack came from BSD) If they "prove" the above issues, then it follows that Microsft's windows 9X series would also belong to SCO and possibly the windows NT family of OSes giving SCO control of the x86 desktop!
Their lies and threats (the threatened SuSE, RedHat, Linus Torvalds, all Linux users, and others - without ever really suing anybody)
they threaten everybody, here's the thought train. If they can convince a judge or jury to rule that the code that was inserted into Linux was the same code as was previously inserted into System V they win,( it's a system V derivative, and therefore owned by SCO). If IBM can convince the judge or jury that the code that was inserted into Linux came from the non-specific implementation as did the code inserted into system V IBM will win (it's a paralell developement, not a derivative). Anything that goes into system V belongs to SCO; anthing that is derived from systemV belongs to SCO.
More ominous is that SCO is making noises that BSD violated it's settlement with At&t and therefore BSD has the same problem as Linux, SCO is going to claim BSD is a system V derivative. Why would SCO bother with BSD, because Windows used BSD code, making Windows a system V derivative!
Following this through to its logical conclusion, unless you are running Solaris, you're going to be paying SCO a system V license fee.
That's right SCO considers IBM, low hanging fruit! the code in violation actualy has their copyright notices for all to see in Linux, the BSD thing will be slightly more difficult to prove but not much, then on to Apple, then Microsoft; or so the crystal ball says.
Today I decided to make one too, the biggest problem I can forsee is that everybody that thinks they know something about electricity, are going to treat us like we are the anti-christ!
One thing I haven't figured out is if water has enough thermal-conductivity to do without a heat-sink on the CPU. I'm not sure about fish, clean an aquarium is enough of a chore without trying to vacuume fish feces of the cpu and not knock a memory stick loose.
For example, commercial sites rely on their banner ads to generate revenue.
translation: We're to lazy to figure out how to write a caching script intelegent enough to realize that if it's caching example.com, the links to doubleclick.com are ad banners and should be drawn off the URL listed instead of the translated cache URL.
The other cool advatage about a /. caching system is that they could add a little bit to your karma for actualy loading the links in the article.
my pleco is 5yrs. old and about 14 inches already, but he has spend a couple summers in the outdoor aquarium. My outdoot aquarium is about 2K gallons in that picture, and I in the process of expanding it so that it'll be in the neighborhood of 4-5K gallons, Plecos will grow to 2 ft,
Probably no coincidence at all, the NYT probably keeps very close tabs on traffic volumes and referers, so when they start getting hits from /. they can check the context pretty quick and if they chose, use the Self Serve Ad System and put up 175,000 impressions for $1,000, in almost the blink of an eye. Or even a bet on who's refers slows who's servers by 25% first; say maybe the purchase of a banner ad?
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I think that most of the more astute /. readers quickly become pretty impervious to astroturf replies in the threads; and the rest can pretty well follow along by reading the comments of other readers.
When I read or see something, and they are obviously selling the sizzile, not the steak, my hockey-meter goes up pretty quick; the other thing is if the online reviews and comments are just plain wrong, it gives the companies entire line bad-karma (accountants would call this crediting the Goodwill account). Norton have some rather good products, but I've recieved so much spam over them, I just don't consider them when I'm buying. Ironicaly I know the spam came from a third-party, selling privated copies, they should have moved on the guy before he gave them the bad-karma.
Also Astroturfing pollutes the online opinion pool, which I would think a valuable marketing resource. Marketing departments belong attached to the VP that controls R & D, not the VP that controls Sales and advertising.
If memory serves me correctly, Alan Cox is/or was both the 2.4 series Kernel Maintainer, owner of big chunks of Linux Kernel and an employee of Red Hat so probably Red Hat own some good sized chunks of Linux code as well.
If SCO has been knowningly distributing non-GPLed code mixed with GPLed code in their Linux distro then they are infringing on the copyright of both COX, Red Hat and half of the OSS developers in the known universe. So Red Hat might want to sue somebody quick while there is something left!
But some people have a fetish about naked 400 lbs women....
SCO is in the same boat, win a against IBM and they've violated the GPL and get sued by a thousand developers for copyright infringement i.e. distributing Linux and become the only entity in the entire universe that can't distribute Linux.
or loss the suit and get counter-sued by IBM!
Europe would be OK if this just involve those pesky software patents, but I don't think anyone is sure just what is intailed here. Europe recognises copyrights, and I'm not sure but probably trade secrets also.
Just remember if you want to run Linux on an IBM system 390, you get it from SuSE, a German company It must have taken a lot of close cooperation between SuSE and IBM to do this and I'm sure if IBM gets burned for a billion, then SuSE would be next on the hit list.
IBM can bankrupt SCO simply by creative use of the discovery process
I think the expenses involved with the discovery process would be more than SCO can bear even without being creative. Imagine having to provide to IBM
1. the unix system V sources
2. the complete change logs
3. the last known addresses of all of the system V programmers for interviews and depositions.
4. the expense involved in provide a representative to cross-x the depositions of a couple hundred programers now located all over the country.
and that's not to mentions hiring the expert wittnesses to testify, they might have to pay 3 or 4 experts at $300.00/hr just to get 1 who can give benefitial testimony. The witness list for this thing would kill a couple trees! My guess is that SCO is going to have to rent a warehouse just to store the documents that they send and recieve on this matter and hire a couple full-time librarians just to manage and cross reference it.
some one sent one to one of my website server and called it codeBlue, it was supposed to patch server vulnerable to codeRed. No idea if it did or not, we were on an Irix server.
yes but taking down a bunch of macs or linux machines should be good for a lot of bragging rights.
A company I work for (in the U.S.A.) had submitted a statement of work to a client, who waited for a month before signing the work order.
My dad was a superviser in a maufactering plant, they made wire and cable for the automotive/agricultural equipment makers, periodicly he'd just grab a cup of coffe and stroll arround his department to take note of what was there and what wasn't. If he ran out of part for the GM job, he'd think "We haven't had an order for Ford in quite a while." and change the machines over and built up the Ford bank. Eventualy his boss would do the "OMG we've an emergency order on the Ford job" thing, so my dad would tell them" We can do, might need a bunch of overtime to do it" the whole time the majority of the order was finished in what would otherwise have been down-time.
Insightfull managment would have thought, this is going to be a disaster, let's get started before the deal is inked. It's far easier to get a head start early and then pace it out towards the end so you look busy than it is to bust ass to get caught up at the deadline.
Do yourself a favor, toss the Rynd novels in the "free books" box at your local used bookstore.
It's been a while since I read any Ayn Rand, but it seems like working 192 hrours for free over a six week period and "Rational Selfishness" are mutualy exclusive. Maybe He'd be better served by both reading and understand "Atlas Shrugged".